How much attention do we pay to attention deficits in poststroke aphasia?

Abstract

Although language deficits are the primary area of weakness, people with poststroke aphasia often experience challenges with nonlinguistic cognitive skills, including attention processing. The purpose of this review is to synthesize the evidence for the relationship between attention deficits and language deficits in people with poststroke aphasia. Three different types of studies are reviewed: (1) studies exploring whether people with poststroke aphasia exhibit concomitant attention and language deficits, (2) studies explicitly exploring the relationship between attention and language deficits in people with poststroke aphasia, and (3) either language or attention (or both) treatment studies exploring whether treatment gains in one domain generalize to the other. In the last section, we briefly review research evidence for the neural basis of the attention-language relationship in aphasia.

RAS ID

56529

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-1-2023

Volume

54

Issue

1

PubMed ID

36542078

School

School of Medical and Health Sciences

Copyright

subscription content

Publisher

American Heart Association

Comments

Varkanitsa, M., Godecke, E., & Kiran, S. (2023). How much attention do we pay to attention deficits in poststroke aphasia?. Stroke, 54(1), 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.037936

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10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.037936